The Green Fairy Book, Jorinde and Joringel, sentence 40
He went in and found the hall in which was the enchantress, and with her seven thousand birds in their wicker cages.
Who acts: Joringel · What happens: go in, find, be · To what, where: hall, enchantress
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jorinde and Joringel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Joringel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hall | det |
| 7 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 enchantress | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 enchantress | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 enchantress | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 enchantress | det |
| 12 | enchantress | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 birds | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 birds | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 birds | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 birds | nmod:poss |
| 17 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 thousand | compound |
| 18 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 birds | nummod |
| 19 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 went | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 cages | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cages | nmod:poss |
| 22 | wicker | wicker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cages | compound |
| 23 | cages | cage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 birds | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in | past | Joringel | with enchantress's thousand birds in birds's wicker cages | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with bird=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Joringel not said here | the hall | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the enchantress | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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